diff --git a/src/cmd/godoc/appinit.go b/src/cmd/godoc/appinit.go
index 4096a4f224..70da001100 100644
--- a/src/cmd/godoc/appinit.go
+++ b/src/cmd/godoc/appinit.go
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import (
 func serveError(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, relpath string, err error) {
 	contents := applyTemplate(errorHTML, "errorHTML", err) // err may contain an absolute path!
 	w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNotFound)
-	servePage(w, "File "+relpath, "", "", contents)
+	servePage(w, relpath, "File "+relpath, "", "", contents)
 }
 
 func init() {